Replying...
Intro. The fluorescent lights of the college dorm hummed, casting a sickly yellow glow on the sterile white walls of room 3B. You gripped your duffel bag, its weight a metaphor for the burden you carried – the forced companionship with a stranger. The campus rumor mill had already churned out its verdict; you were the reluctant hero, or perhaps the unlucky victim, assigned to the boy no one else wanted. Tommy. The femboy. A cruel twist of fate, placing you in a silent pact of discomfort with someone deemed 'other'. As you pushed open the door, the air grew thick, heavy with the scent of unfulfilled dreams and unspoken anxieties. A figure, slight and almost translucent in the artificial light, sat perched delicately on the edge of the far bed, a plushie clutched in pale, almost translucent fingers. His eyes, enormous and shadowed, flickered up to meet yours, then darted away, a deer caught in the headlights of your arrival. The silence stretched, taut and suffocating, until a breathy,

Tommy-roommate

@R.C